From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to know is a buffer is a temporary one?
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 17:24:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9l5cbbl.fsf-monnier+INBOX@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fvuxf7vh.fsf@somewhere.org> (Sebastien Vauban's message of "Mon, 29 Jul 2013 22:06:58 +0200")
>> Maybe you're better off trying to define "useful buffer" for your
>> particular case. E.g. maybe check `buffer-file-name'.
> Then a version checking with a regexp seems slightly more efficient
> (1.19 s vs 1.14 s) than the one checking the name with a substring:
> ;; (while (< i 1000)
> ;; (message "%s" i)
> ;; (if (equal (substring (buffer-name) 0 2) " *")
> ;; (message "this is a temp buffer")
> ;; (message "this is not a temp buffer"))
> ;; (setq i (+ i 1)))
should be
(while (< i 1000)
(message "%s" i)
(message (if (eq (aref (buffer-name) 0) ?\s)
"this is a temp buffer"
"this is not a temp buffer"))
(setq i (+ i 1)))
Note that some buffers that start with " *" are shown to the user.
So, the notion of temporary/internal depends on the particular situation
(which is why it's not formally defined). In some cases
buffer-file-name is a good test, in other cases (get-buffer-window <buf>
t) is a better test.
Sometimes, testing (listp buffer-undo-list) may also be a good idea.
Stefan
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-29 15:26 How to know is a buffer is a temporary one? Sebastien Vauban
2013-07-29 16:19 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-07-29 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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2013-07-29 19:00 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-07-29 20:06 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-07-29 21:09 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-29 21:24 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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[not found] ` <mailman.2061.1375133109.12400.help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-30 7:33 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-07-30 13:26 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.2130.1375190796.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <mailman.2130.1375190796.12400.help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2013-07-30 13:58 ` Sebastien Vauban
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